y'know considering all the antivaxx and lolbertarian sentiment

  • Mizokon [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Wasn't there some poll saying people would rather quit than get vaccinated if mandates happen? Let's see what happens in reality.

    Also, can supreme court declare it "unconstitutional"? Ik they allowed Texas to ban abortions so i wouldn't put it past them to do that

    Regardless im glad Biden atleast did this.

    • S4ck [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Theyre completely full of it. They will get vaccinated before they give up their bougie life style.

      My company implemented this policy a few weeks ago. A couple of people in my department started packing their things. By the end of the morning they changed their mind and didn't do anything about it.

      • s0ykaf [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        A couple of people in my department started packing their things. By the end of the morning they changed their mind and didn’t do anything about it.

        those people are so fucking lame jesus

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          They're the same people who were ripping off Nike logos from their shoes, buying Keurig machines to break them, and pouring French wine down their toilets in 2003. They only know how to vent their frustrations through childish symbolic gestures.

            • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              Sean Hannity did a softball interview with Roy Moore back when Moore was running for Alabama senator in 2017. Moore had been in extremely hot water because he's a pedophile rapist undeserving of being in polite society. A whole lot of people started messaging Keurig over twitter, since Keurig is one of the advertisers on Hannity's show. Keurig then announced maybe a day later that they'd be pulling all advertisements from Fox News.

              Chuds got extremely pissed off and started putting up videos of them beating their coffee machines with bats or tossing them into the trash. Yes I'm sure Keurig is very upset that you'll have to buy a new coffee machine, you complete dorks.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Jfc reminds me of when I was 9 and started to pack my stuff in a suitcase, telling folks I was gonna run away. Of course I never followed through.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Americans, especially Texans, are incredibly docile. We're conditioned into accepting anything so long as we're convinced it will be temporary, but even if it's not temporary, we can be convinced only the worst parts are temporary.

      At best there will be a few purely symbolic protests that do nothing. There might be one or two lone wolf instances of some libertarian style idiot shooting himself in the foot in a police confrontation.

      • mr_world [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        When the open up protests happened, it seemed like a few wackos. But it ended up being funded by right wing billionaires in an attempt to do Tea Party 2. That was enough to relax curfews and restrictions. We never got a mask mandate, never got a true lockdown. As soon as the thought even crossed someones mind there was a group of chuds at the state capital and one the streets to put up an opposition. Then the media covered it because they think everyone just laughs at these people.

        What I'm getting at is don't underestimate them. Democrats cannot really oppose the right. Joe isn't going to send the National Guard to beat down chuds on national TV like the BLM/Floyd protests. Instead they'll either mock them until getting beat by them. Or they'll just symbolically oppose the protests while getting trampled by right wing populism. These are the perfect conditions for figure to emerge and turn this shit into some kind of movement. The money will fall behind it and that's it. A few silly protests we laugh at suddenly become the right wing party.

        It has nothing to do with them personally and individually being docile. It's okay to be docile when everything is stacked in your favor. You don't have to be a full on murderous prick to get your way. Just complain enough. In a few years it won't be vaccines vs no vaccines it'll be lynching general practitioners over measles vaccines vs maybe we should just ban vaccines.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      3 years ago

      In my state they were warning that things would shut down because many thousands of public transit workers were threatening to quit over vaccine mandates, and it didn't happen.